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Alcatel-Lucent is the product of the French-based Alcatel’s acquisition
of the former Lucent Technologies in 2006. Led by former BT executive Ben Verwaayen, Alcatel-Lucent
reported US$22.5 billion in 2010 revenues and is incorporated in France and headquartered in
Paris.

Founded in 1898, the company provides products, solutions, and transformation services that
enable service providers, enterprises, governments, and strategic industries to deliver voice,
data, and video communication services to end-users worldwide. In addition,
Alcatel-Lucent provides voice telephony and data networking solutions, and call
center software; and end-to-end communications networks and individual network elements, as well as
designs and sells a suite of radio frequency products, such as cable, antenna, tower systems, and
their related electronic components. Further, it offers consultation, integration, migration and
transformation, deployment, outsourcing, and maintenance services.

Alcatel-Lucent

Latest Headlines

Alcatel-Lucent's move to outsource research, development and maintenance activities related to 2G and 3G technologies should not be a big deal to most of its customers, as long as the outsourcing scheme still results in solid products, according to industry analyst Peter Jarich of Current Analysis.

Alcatel-Lucent continues to wring more life out of dying copper infrastructure, this time claiming to have hit a new broadband speed record of 10 Gbps using traditional copper telephone lines and prototype technology in Bell Labs tests.

Alcatel-Lucent continues to wring more life out of dying copper infrastructure, this time claiming to have hit a new broadband speed record of 10 Gbps using traditional copper telephone lines and prototype technology in Bell Labs tests.

Alcatel-Lucent became the latest vendor to benefit from Vodafone's £7 billion (€8.79 billion/$11.97 billion) Project Spring network investment plan, after being picked as the operator's supplier of reference for LTE metro cells that come integrated with Wi-Fi.

Saudi Arabia-based Mobily has signed a $200 million (€146.5 million) vendor financing deal with the Canada export credit agency to allow the mobile operator to buy telecoms equipment from Alcatel-Lucent.

Alcatel-Lucent is investing €3 million ($4 million) in a French start-up company that specialises in the equipment manufacturer's core areas of LTE mobile networks and small cells, with a focus on mobile fronthaul to replace the physical link for mobile broadband networks.

The European Commission (EC) agreed to a "landmark" 5G cooperation deal with South Korea early Monday, in a bid to define global standards for the next-generation technology and ensure radio frequency harmonisation.

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